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WEIRDEST computer problem ever...WTF???
SNAAAKE:
HEY HEY ! ! ;D ;D ;D
The "middle one is for the slave device" WORKED !
Thanks everyone :)
Live and learn.How lame am I, didnt know :P.
zowiebowie:
Surely that's not the weirdest computer problem ever though? :P
I must say, I remember some pretty horrible weird problems back when I was using the original IBM PCs... trying to get hardware to talk to each other was a nightmare. So many hours sweating over a badly written manual, no 'Internet' to speak of.... *shudder*
In comparison to those dark days, I love modern PCs! ;)
Smittydc:
a related note: it's best to have your burner and the drive with the MP3s (or other frequently burned info) on different IDE channels -- they will communicate faster that way.
Vol:
With ATA-66/100/133 cables I've always found it best to use cable select.
I would suggest you set all drives to the CS (cable select) jumper.
Put your main hard drive on the primary IDE controller on the last plug on the cable (which should make it master).
Put your CDROM on the secondary IDE controller on the middle plug on the cable (which should make it slave).
Put your second hard drive on the secondary IDE controller on the last plug on the cable (which should make it master).
You also have to consider how you will be moving files and accessing files.
Essentially you do not want to put the two most accessed drives on the same IDE channel as only one will be able to read or write at a time. To further illustrate: if you copy a file from primary IDE master to primary IDE slave data is read from the master into system memory, then data is written to the slave from system memory. However, if you were to copy from a drive on the primary IDE channel to a drive on the secondary IDE channel, the source drive can read at the same time the destination drive is writing. Theoretically cutting the copy process time in half (in reality its about 3/4 or so but still faster).
SNAAAKE:
--- Quote from: Vol on August 10, 2003, 10:35:06 am ---With ATA-66/100/133 cables I've always found it best to use cable select.
I would suggest you set all drives to the CS (cable select) jumper.
Put your main hard drive on the primary IDE controller on the last plug on the cable (which should make it master).
Put your CDROM on the secondary IDE controller on the middle plug on the cable (which should make it slave).
Put your second hard drive on the secondary IDE controller on the last plug on the cable (which should make it master).
You also have to consider how you will be moving files and accessing files.
Essentially you do not want to put the two most accessed drives on the same IDE channel as only one will be able to read or write at a time. To further illustrate: if you copy a file from primary IDE master to primary IDE slave data is read from the master into system memory, then data is written to the slave from system memory. However, if you were to copy from a drive on the primary IDE channel to a drive on the secondary IDE channel, the source drive can read at the same time the destination drive is writing. Theoretically cutting the copy process time in half (in reality its about 3/4 or so but still faster).
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thanks...I switched. :)
I had it like both HDs on same IDE.
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